Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Study

• BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Study

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.290, Manonmani Publishers

• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

• If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Training, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2519, Manonmani Publishers

• The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Long, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

• Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.79, Vivekananda Kendra

• That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Italian, Hands, Order

• The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

• The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Principles, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.212, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Data, Discipline

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

• Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

• For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Tides

• Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Exercise, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama

• Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3132, Manonmani Publishers

• Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Training, Mind, Special

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.16, Advaita Ashrama

• No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Past, Destiny

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

• You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feet, Heaven, Balls

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

• Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Waiting, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (1994). “Awakened India”

• Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, India, Study

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The Vedanta Philosophy: Art of living”, p.41, editionNEXT.com

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